[6-text p 428]
A-rayed was sche toward hire maryage [folio 253b]
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This fresche mayde ful of gemmys cleere
Hire brothir which seuene ȝeer was of age
Arayede ek ful frosch in his manere
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And thus in gret noblesse & with glad chere
Towar Saluces schapynge hire Iourneye
ffrom day to day they rydynge in here woye
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[PART V.]
[A [[A space has been left in the MS for this letter.]] ]-Mong al this aftyr his wikkede vsage
This Markys ȝit his wif to tempte more
To the vttyreste priue of hire corage
ffully to han experience & lore
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ȝif that sche were as stedefast as by-foore
He on a day in opyn audience
fful boystously hath seyd hire this sentence
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Certis Grisilde I hadde I-now plesaunce
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To han ȝow to myn wif for ȝoure goodnesse
As for ȝoure trouthe & for ȝoure obeisaunce
Not for ȝorere lynage / ne for ȝoure rychesse
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But now knowe I in verray sothfastnesse
That in gret lordschepe If I wele auyse
Ther is gret seruytut in sundery wyse
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I may nat do as euery plowman may
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Myn puple me constreynyth for to take
A-noþer wyf & cryen day be day
And ek þe popis rancure for to slake
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Consenteth it þat dar I vndyr-take
And trewely þus meche I ȝow seye
Myn newe wif is comynge by the weye
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Be strong of herte & woyde a-non hire place
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And thilke dowere þat ȝe broughte me
Take it a-geyn I graunte it of myn grace
